On this basis, Bacchilega uses an intertextual approach in her exploration of three different fairy-tale retellings in the form of short stories, poetry, and short film: Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk, Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch, and Dan Taulapapa McMullin's intermedial Sinalela (Cinderella) narratives.

In Chapter Three, Bacchilega revisits the big-budget films Enchanted and Pan's Labyrinth but also discusses two independent films that bring different investments to the fairy-tale remix: Year of the Fish (Dir.

Bacchilega's insightful discussion juxtaposes translation as adaptation and adaptation as translation, focusing on ways in which adaptations of The Arabian Nights contest the vilification of Arabs (or not) and the subordination of exoticized wonder to fairy-tale hegemony.

After suggesting that more research needs to be done about wonder in today's fairy tales, she urges fairy-tale scholars to intensify our attention to the significance of orality and epistemologies in multimedia fairy-tale traditions.

is a model of scholarship highly recommended to anyone interested in fairy-tale studies and modern fairy-tale adaptations.

Ziolkowski begins his essay by stating, "the book will not become a landmark in folkloristics in general, and only time will tell if it has a lasting impact even within fairy-tale studies.

While Ziolkowski focuses on Bottigheimer's rejection of oral wonder tales that stem from antiquity, the middle ages, and Eastern traditions, Francisco Vazda Silva questions the accuracy and authenticity of Bottigheimer's biographical depiction of Straparola and then shows how she not only created a fictitious biography which depicts the unknown Italian author as a fairy-tale hero inventing fairy tales, but she also invented her own history of storytelling that excludes 95% of the European population from creating and disseminating tales in an oral tradition.

Le piacevoli notti thus became a source for literary fairy-tale writers who did not have direct access to oral tradition.

Whether the fairy-tale genre is considered exclusively within European and literary history, or as a genre whose ties to expressive cultures and comparative literatures are inflected by global dynamics, has significant implications for ascribing a place for lay and subaltern knowledges in history.

Tales were not named or categorized according to genre, but it is clear that most of the fairy-tale motifs, topoi, characters, plots, and conventions existed in oral traditions (and some continue to do so) long before learned people learned how to write and categorize narratives.

All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.